Installing SIMS 2 from CD I start setup.exe and can select german language.
Then the installer crashed in "AutoRun.exe" with following error message:
Unhandled exception: page fault on write access to 0x7c002fc4 in 32-bit code (0x7c7db2ea)

If the installer CD has a different executable such as setup.exe (etc) - then please re-test with these alternative installer(s).autorun.exe executable files often fail to run properly under Wine.
If installation still fails then please post the log online.

The forum has a very small 200 Kbyte attachment limit...
You're much better off pasting Wine logs to a Pastebin-esque site.

After update to 3.5 Staging and setting all experimental switches in staging using winecfg, the installation starts.
After some trouble with changing CD's during install, a "$ wine eject" on terminal will dismount & eject the CD and I'm able to change them. SIMS 2 have been installed successfully.

Here ends the good news. After starting from terminal I get the following error message:

Normally I try the icon to start, but for better debug output, I start it from term.

BTW: The reason for me to use the older NVIDIA driver 340 is, that Hibernate won't work with 384.
The bug is unsolved since 384 was announced. So my question is, would it be possible to fix
the problem with SIMS2 when using NVIDIAs 340?

So all the vRAM is filled on the graphics card...
Some kind of memory leak issue?

Your issue could be caused by: Bug 8051 - Sims 2 demo exits prematurely.
It's hard to tell - because the terminal logs posted there are from very old versions of Wine.
I'll have a little play around with the demo version myself I think...

After two days of troubleshooting the hibernate prob I go back to 311 and hoped for the next one.

Yeah, gotta love support for proprietary drivers... I'm sorely tempted by the RX580 myself - after many years of being an Nvidia only shop...

The script requires the WineHQ winehq-staging package to be installed. This will supply the necessary runtime libraries.
The script only locally installs the custom built Wine in a subdirectory of your standard Linux user $HOME directory.

Maybe if you can apply a "How to", I'll try my best with it.

freewind wrote:
BTW: How far is the chance that the "demo version" is like the "game"?

Alright - Shit happens...
I hate doing things I did not really know what I do...

Until step 5 all was right.
Step 6 starts and try to install a, I believe, second Ubuntu.
It adds ~7 GB with hundreds off packages to the system.
Not enough, it LOOPS! After second try I stopped it hard.
Full log is on: http://ge.tt/3k6PCPp2 as log-1.7z
Rebooted, cleared and try again...
It stops with an DPKG-error that I can not solve. see below: